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Ask HN: CIA is spying on you. Now what?

1 points by myegorov ↗ HN
Knowing (assuming) that CIA has the capability to and in fact spies on US and non-US citizens alike on a massive scale, what do we do? Are there effective/practical means to resist/subvert such attempts? To take the government to task? What if anything will this knowledge change in your life?

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ayousif00
The chances of the CIA getting interested in what you do with your time is very small but the leak does shed light on some strong exploits AND tools, and it might be farfetched to say this, but if Wikileaks got their hands on those details, then someone else besides them possibly has them too. If the CIA has the ability to make those tools by utilizing unknown exploits then the chances of someone else being able to do the same are almost certain, the best recourse is to call on the CIA to share the exploits with the public or at least the developers so that they can get them fixed.

This is huge especially for corporate espionage, consider the possibility of a Russian/Chinese state-linked company spying on American companies to get an advantage, another example would be Russian O&G companies planting bad designs in order to cause disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to make other companies look bad.

myegorov
Do you know of a single instance where CIA (not subcontractors) was held accountable for any action? Secret detention, targeted killing, lying under oath? I think this is huge from public interest standpoint, couldn't care less about corporate espionage.